Category Archives: Flex
Flash Player and Adobe AIR feature list
Flash Player 11.6 and Adobe AIR 3.6 (February 12, 2013) |
SWF version: 19
| Feature | Documentation | |
|---|---|---|
| Lossless video export from standalone and authplay.dll | No documentation impact | |
| Support for flash.display.graphics.readGraphicsData() that returns a Vector of IGraphicsData | API reference | |
| Improve permissions UI related to full screen keyboard access | No documentation impact | |
| Prevent ActiveX Abuse in Office Documents | Administration Guide | |
| Support file access in cloud on Windows | No documentation impact | |
| Enhance multi-SWF support | API reference | |
| Migration certification for ANEs | Guides: Signing an updated version of an AIR application ADT package command |
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| RectangleTexture | API reference | |
| File API update so AIR apps conform to Apple data storage guidelines | API reference | |
| Separate sampler state for Stage3D | API reference | |
| Set device specific Retina Display resolution (iOS) | Guides: Setting desktop application properties iOS Settings |
Flash Player 11.5 and Adobe AIR 3.5 (November 6, 2012) |
SWF version: 18
| Feature | Documentation | |
|---|---|---|
| Shared ByteArray | API references: flash.concurrent.Condition flash.concurrent.Mutex Using worker for concurrency |
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| Invoke Event enhancement (for openurl) | API references: InvokeEvent InvokeEventReason Guide |
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| Packaging multiple libraries in an ANE (iOS) | Guide | |
| Debug stack trace in release builds of Flash Player | API reference | |
| Statically link DRM (Desktop only) | API reference Guide |
Flash Player 11.4 and Adobe AIR 3.4 (August 21, 2012) |
SWF version: 17
| Feature | Documentation |
|---|---|
| Concurrency (ActionScript workers) | Guide API references: Worker WorkerDomain WorkerState |
| Telemetry API | API reference |
| Flash Player SandboxBridge support | API reference |
| StageVideo.attachCamera() improvements | Guide API references: attachCamera() Camera.drawToBitmapData() VIDEO_FRAME event |
| List connected devices | Command syntax |
| New location for the iOS Debug Bridge (idb) utility | Guide |
| Compressed texture with alpha support for Stage3D | Guide API references: Context3D.requestContext3D()Context3DTextureFormat CubeTexture uploadFromBitmapData() and uploadFromByteArray() |
| Direct AIR Deployment for iOS | Guide API reference |
| AudioPlaybackMode.AMBIENT | Guide API reference |
| Resolve ANE Symbol Conflicts on iOS | Guides: ADT ANE |
| iOS Push Notifications | Guide API references: flash.notifications packageflash.events.RemoteNotificationEvent |
| LZMA Support for ByteArray | Guide API reference |
| Increase GPU Reach | API reference |
Flash Player 11.3 and Adobe AIR 3.3 (June 8, 2012) |
SWF version 16
| Feature | Documentation |
|---|---|
| Full screen keyboard input | Guide API reference |
| Texture Streaming | Guide API reference |
| BitmapData.drawWithQuality | Guide API reference |
| BitmapData.encode | Guide API reference |
| HW Failure String in Context3D.driverinfo | API reference |
| Aspect Ratio Enhancements | Guide API reference |
| USB Debugging for AIR iOS | Guide |
| Enhanced Background Behavior for AIR iOS | Guide |
| Test and Debug Simulator Support | Guide |
| JPEG-XR Support | API reference |
| New location for File.applicationStorageDirectory (Mac OS only) | API reference |
Flash Player 11.2 and Adobe AIR 3.2 (March 28, 2012) |
SWF version 15
| Feature | Documentation | |
|---|---|---|
| Stage3D for Adobe AIR | Guide API reference |
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| Silent Auto Update for Windows | Guide | |
| Multithread Video Decoding | API reference | |
| Mouse Lock | Guide API reference |
Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3 (October 4, 2011) |
SWF version 13
| Feature | Documentation |
|---|---|
| Stage 3D Accelerated Graphics Rendering | Guide API reference |
| Flash Access Content Protection Enhancements | Guide |
| Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) | Guide |
| NetStream.dispose() | API reference |
| H.264/AVC Software Encoding for Cameras (desktop) | API reference |
| Enhanced High Resolution Bitmap Support | API reference |
| High Efficiency SWF Compression Support | Release notes |
| G.711 Audio Compression for Telephony | API reference |
| Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Support | Guide API reference |
| Garbage Collection Advice | Guide API reference |
| Cubic Bezier Curves | API reference |
| Secure Random Number Generator | API reference |
| Socket Progress Events | API reference |
| DisplayObjectContainer.removeChildren and MovieClip.isPlaying | Guide API reference |
| MovieClip.isPlaying | API reference |
| Sound.loadCompressedDataFromByteArray | API reference |
| Sound.loadPCMFromByteArray | API reference |
| Native 64-bit Support | Release notes |
| Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding | Guide API reference |
| TLS Secure Sockets Support | Guide API reference |
| Native Extensions | Guide API reference |
| Flash Access Content Protection Support for AIR Mobile | Guide |
| Encrypted Local Storage for Mobile | Guide API reference |
| Captive Runtime Support | Guide |
| Stage Video Hardware Acceleration (AIR Mobile) | API reference |
| H.264/AAC Playback Support (AIR for iOS) | Guide API reference |
| Front-facing Camera Support (AIR for Android) | Guide API reference |
| Background Audio Playback Support (AIR for iOS) | Guide |
| Device Speaker Control for Mobile (AIR for iOS & Android) | API reference |
| 16 and 32-bit Color Depth | Release notes |
| Game Controller API (AIR TV) | Guide API reference |
“Monocle”, a new ActionScript 3 profiling tool from Adobe for desktop and mobile apps
HOW TO INSTALL APACHE FLEX 4.8.0 SDK IN FLASH BUILDER
step by step tutorial how to install Apache Flex 4.8.0 in Flash Builder, I know that it’s not rocket science but maybe newbie developers could need more information to start play with new SDK.
The new SDK is more or less the same of 4.6 but under Apache flag, like you can read at Spoon website, but we hope people behind the project could give us new opportunities for our RIAs and Mobile projects.
So let’s start!
First of all download Apache Flex 4.8.0 binaries for your operating system (in my case OS X), keep attention, you need the binaries release not the source one.
After unzip the downloaded file create a folder called 4.8.0 in /Applications/Flash Builder 4.5/sdks
Then download playerglobal.swc for Flash Player 11 on Adobe website.
Save it in /Applications/Adobe Flash Builder 4.5/sdks/4.8.0/frameworks/libs (it could be better create a folder called “player” or as you want, in my case I use “11.1″ and save the swc inside).
Finally, open Terminal navigate trough your folders and position it to this location /Applications/Adobe Flash Builder 4.5/sdks/4.8.0/frameworks then launch this ANT command:
ant thirdparty-downloads
After 10 minutes you will download everything:
. OMSF dependencies
. TLF framework
. Flex 4.6 SDK and so on
Last but not least, in Flex 4.8 SDK folder you will find a env-template.properties, you have to duplicate the file, call env.properties and set the right path for each folder:
env.AIR_HOME= path to AIR SDK on your filesystem
env.FLASHPLAYER_DEBUGGER = path to Flash Player Debugger, if you have Flash Pro installed you can find a version in Players/Debug/Flash Player Debugger
env.PLAYERGLOBAL_HOME= path to playerglobal.swc (it’s not an absolute path, it’s relative and starts from frameworks folder in Flex SDK!!!)
env.PIXELBENDER_HOME= path to Pixel Bender Toolkit 2 (it’s not important to set if you don’t use it)
env.ADOBE_EXTENSION_MANAGER= path to Adobe Extension Manager
Remember that in template file you can read an accurate explanation on how to set those environment variables
Then you can start to enjoy the new Flex SDK.
There is another way to install the SDK trough an AIR app that you can download from here: http://people.apache.org/~bigosmallm/installapacheflex/
The Apache Flex community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Flex 4.8.0-incubating!
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash Platform-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop.
This is the first release under the Incubator of the Apache Software Foundation and represents the initial donation of Adobe Flex 4.6 by Adobe System Inc. Note that because Apache Flex is under “incubation”, Apache Flex is not an official Apache Project, and this is not an official Apache release. For more information see the DISCLAIMER file in the release.
This release marks the start of a new era for Flex. The future of Flex is now driven by the community instead of a corporation. Users can have important bugs fixed or new features added by contributing the code themselves.
Apache Flex is available in source form from the following download page:
http://incubator.apache.org/flex/download.html
When downloading from a mirror site, please remember to verify the downloads using signatures found on the Apache site:
http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex/KEYS
Apache Flex release packages are different from Adobe release packages. For information on how to use Apache Flex with existing IDEs, see:
http://incubator.apache.org/flex/packager.html
For more information on Apache Flex, visit the project home page:
http://incubator.apache.org/flex/
Apache Flex 4.8.0-incubating Released
DYNAMIC EMBEDDING FONTS WITHOUT USING FLASH OR EMBED METADATA
In the most cases, if you search online, you can find 2 main solutions:
1. first one is embedding fonts in a class with [Embed] metadata
2. second one is create a swf file and instantiate the class of Font embedded inside (this method require Flash Pro)
Searching well you can also find a solution with swfmill but there are some problems to integrate with AS3 projects.
Like you know, in my spare time, I’m playing with Haxe and Corona SDK and in this case Haxe help me to accomplish my task.
I found a great library called hxswfl made with Haxe that allow me to create a swf or swc file directly from an XML, there are many other usage of this library that are described on online repository of this project, but what I need this time is use it to create a library with embedded fonts inside with a class name assigned to each font.
So first of all, following the library XML schema, I create a lib with a list of fonts in this way:
<lib> <font file="Palatino-Bold.ttf"/> <font file="Palatino-BoldItalic.ttf"/> <font file="Palatino-Italic.ttf"/> <font file="Palatino-Roman.ttf"/> <font file="Verdana-Bold.ttf"/> <font file="verdana.ttf"/> </lib>
Any node has 2 attribute, file attribute where I set the path to find my font on filesystem and the class where I set the class name of my font that I’ll use in my actionscript class later.
After download source of hxswfml library (and obviously before anything I’ve installed Haxe in my computer), I go with Terminal in bin/neko folder and I launched neko file (hxswfml.n) with those parameters:
neko hxswfml.n xml2lib librarySWF.xml lib.swf
I’m telling to my neko program that it has to convert my xml to a swf library, embedding inside all fonts described in the XML file with that class name.
Now we have our SWF file with fonts, we can create our Actionscript project and load with a loader object our swf file.
Then, when SWF file is loaded, we have to register our fonts inside the SWF library, you can accomplish this task like this:
for(var i:int = 0; i < _fontsArr.length; i++){
var FontLib:Class = _loader.contentLoaderInfo.applicationDomain.getDefinition(FONT_NAME) as Class;
Font.registerFont(FontLib);
}
Ok, now you can use any fonts that you have in your SWF without install them in your laptop and without create any AS3 class, this is a really easy way to work with external fonts in a dynamic way.
